Tradition 34 of 35
Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends
Mythic systems, traditional folklore, sacred and supernatural legends, fairy tales, and documented folk beliefs that preserve or contextualize magical, spiritual, anomalous, and otherworldly traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 20,091
- Earliest
- 1000
- to 2026
- Read free
- 72%
- 14,383 with public full text
- With covers
- 72%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match17,236
- Metadata match585
- Query match2,265
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Folklore3.6K
- Legends2.1K
- Fairy tales1.8K
- Tales1.5K
- Fiction1.4K
- History1.1K
- Mythology840
- Early works to 1800760
- Poetry694
- Juvenile fiction684
- Translations into English635
- Social life and customs617
- History and criticism530
- Drama509
- Juvenile literature491
- Religion485
- Greek Mythology475
- Superstition473
- Classical Mythology437
- Short Stories350
- Indians of North America341
- Children's stories334
- Horror tales293
- Biography292
Top languages
- English8,343 · 42%
- German4,162 · 21%
- French1,648 · 8%
- Latin836 · 4%
- NOT738 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- ca. v6. Jh Aesopus135 books
- Hans Christian Andersen102 in this tradition103 books
- Andrew Lang70 in this tradition83 books
- Charles Perrault66 in this tradition76 books
- Nathaniel Hawthorne64 in this tradition74 books
- ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus58 books
- Euripides56 in this tradition59 books
- Jacob Grimm55 books
- Benjamin Blake52 books
- Edgar Allan Poe51 in this tradition63 books
- Jean de La Fontaine50 in this tradition56 books
- Wilhelm Grimm50 in this tradition53 books
20,091 books
Chefs-d'oeuvre des conteurs français avant La Fontaine, 1050-1650
Charles Louandre
1884French
Chefs-d'œuvre des conteurs français contemporains de La Fontaine, xviie siècle)
Charles Léopold Louandre
1874French
Cheremisy
I. N. Smirnov
1889Russian
Chełmskie
Oskar Kolberg
1890Polish
Chi feng da wang jiang jun ji lue
Shouyong Zhu
1889Chinese
Choix de Fables et Historiettes
A. P. Pihan
1866French
Chong kan Song ben yi jian zhi
Mai Hong
1879Chinese
Chrestomathia Arabica
Andreas Oberleitner
1823Multiple languages
Christliche Bedencken und Erinnerung von Zauberey
Hermann Witekind
1585German
Chroniques, traditions et légendes de l'ancienne histoire des Flamands
Octave Delepierre
1834French
Chronologia Siue Temporum Supputatio, Omnium illustrium Medicorum, tàm ueterum, quàm recentiorum, in omni linguarum cognitione, à primis artis Medicae inuentoribus & scriptoribus, usq[ue] ad nostram aetatem & seculum
Wolfgang Jobst
1556Latin
Chudo svi͡atago Georgīi͡a o Bolgarini͡e
Khr. M. Loparev
1894Russian
Chuyên dö'i xu'a
Abel Des Michels
1888French
Cinq livres des Hieroglyphiqves, ov sont contenvs les plvs rares secrets de la nature, & proprietez de toutes choses
Pierre Dinet
1614French
Cista prenestina
Heinrich von Brunn
1864Italian
Codex Cortesianus
Léon de Rosny, ------- Bouilhet, Léon Louis Lucien Prunol de Rosny, Museo Arqueológico Nacional
1883French
Cognizione della mitologia per via di dialogo
François-Xavier Rigord
1755Italian
Collections d'images pour jeunes filles
Marcel Vagné
1890French
Come pervenne e rimase in Italia la Matrona d'Efeso
Augusto Cesari
1890Italian
Comedia intitulada A virtude sempre triunfa, ou, Perseo e Andrómeda
Nicolau Luís
1790Portuguese
Comincia la vita del glorioso Sancto Hieronymo doctore excellentissimo
Michele Manzolo
1478Italian
Comincia la vita e la fine del glorioso Sancto Hieronymo doctore excellentissimo
Gabriel Petri
1475Italian
Commentarius in priora Geneseos capita, quatenus universae populorum mythologigae claves exhibent
Gottlieb Philipp Christian Kaiser
1829Latin
Commentatio de Diomede heroe per Italiam inferiorem divinis honoribus culto
Eduard Lübbert
1890Latin